Paint-mixer



(No Model.)

D' Jl'STARRHT .Na 314,546 PAINT MIXERl a) Patented M Hlm'www,.hml' am' 24. 1885 I El UNITED Starts ljla'rnnr DAVID I. STARRETT, OF THOMASTON, MAINE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN RUGGLES, OF OAMBRIDGEPORT, MASSACHUSETTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,546, dated March 24%,| 1885. Application tled March 1S, 1884. (No model.)

F0 @ZZ whom it may concern: i straps e e, so that the said rings project a Be it known that I, DAVID J. STARRETT, of little above the top thereof. I then place a 55 Thomaston, in the county of Knox and State strip, f, of stout wood or metal across the top of Maine, have invented a new and useful Imof the barrel, resting upon the chines thereof 5 provement in Paint-Mixers; and I do hereby and held by the rings, the ends of the strip declare that the following is a full, clear, and projecting far enough for this purpose. exact description of the same. Between the strip f and the cover c, I place 6o lVIy invention relatesto the mixing of paints; a wedge. g, and drive it in to securely hold and it consists of asuitablereceptaclcadapted the cover in position. This is a very con- IO to receive the materials, provided with a wire i venient form of holding device, and I prefer mesh or its equivalent extending across the it; but of course any other device or arrangemiddle thereof, the receptacle being suitably ment may be used with equally good eii'ect, 65

supported upon standards, so as to be given a and I do not limit myself in this respect. I rotary motion,\vhereby the materials are thorl also provide the top of the receptacle with a [5 oughly mixed and cut up by passing through small opening, h, and a screw-plug, t', so that the wire mesh, and,'further, in the details ot the state of the mixture can be ascertained construction. without removing the cover. 70

In the accompanying drawings I have rcpi The paint or other liquid or semi-liquid resented one form of receptacle with my immaterial is put into the receptacle with any 2O provements embodied, Figure l being a cenl ingredients which are to beincorporated theretral vertical section; Fig. 2, a vertical central l with, the cover put on and secured in place, section a quarter-turn from Fig. 1, and Fig. i and then the receptacle is rapidly revolved, 75 3 is ahorizontal section taken above the wire. the paint, &c., being thrown from one end to In the drawings I have represented at A a l the other and thoroughly cut up and mixed in 2 5 suitable stand for supporting the receptacle l its passage through the wire mesh in the cencontainingthematerial. This consists ot'a base I ter ofthe receptacle.

and two uprights slotted at their upper ends l I do not limit myself to the specific ar- 8o to receive the trunnions c c on the side ofthe rangement of the wires or their exact locapaint-receptacle B, by which the receptacle is 5 tion, as they may be placed lengthwise of the 30 suspended, and upon which it is capable ofi, barrel with the same results, or diagonally of being given a rotary motion. The receptacle i the same. y' may be of any desired size and shape, though I lVhat Iclaim as my invention, and desire to 8 5 prefer the form shown. Through the center secure by Letters Patent, isof the receptacleI run wires parallel to each i 1. In a paintmixer, a receptacle to' con- 35 other in two directions, as shown; or they may l tain the paint, a wire mesh extending across be run in any way so as to form a wire mesh l the interior of the same and secured to the ofthe desired neness, this depending somewalls thereof, the receptaclebeing so arranged 90 l* what upon the degree of fineness to which it as to be capable of rotary motion, whereby is desired to bring t-he paint. These wires the paint is thoroughly mixed and cut up by 4o are preferably secured by being run in and passage through the said wire mesh, substanout through holes bored in the receptacle; but l tially as described. y any other means of attachment'such as to 2. Inapaint-lnixer, and in combination, the 95 staples within the receptaclemay be used. wire mesh adapted to cut and mix thepaint, I form the receptacle with an opening, I), the cover c, loops and rings d d, strip f, and 45 in the top for the admission ot' the material, wedge g, all arranged substantially as deand a plug or cover, c, with beveled edge, is scribed. adapted to iit snugly therein and effectually In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name ro close the same. to this specification in the presence of two sub- In order to hold the coverin securely against scribing witnesses. 5o the centrifugal force during the revolution of DAVID J. STARRETT.

the receptacle, and against the pressure of lVitnesses: the paint inside, I provide two rings, d d, ELBRrDGE BURTON, connected to the receptacle near the top by A. E. RomNsoN. 

